December 2015

Mark Hodge, Executive Director of GBI, addressed the IBA Annual Conference on the role of In-house Lawyers in UNGPs implementation in practice on 5 October 2015. GBI’s interventions followed keynotes from the former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, and...

A summary report has today been released of a consultation on the U.S. National Action Plan (NAP) on Responsible Business Conduct, co-hosted by the Global Business Initiative on Human Rights (GBI), the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR)...

In a public statement released today, the Global Business Initiative on Human Rights (GBI) calls on States to develop National Action Plans (NAPs) on business and human rights and provides recommendations for the content of such plans. GBI’s statement...

The OECD today published a blog on ‘Corporate respect for human rights in the Chinese context’  by GBI Director Katryn Wright. It calls for greater stakeholder collaboration to scale efforts by companies to implement corporate respect for...

G7 leaders indicate support for the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the role of National Action Plans (NAPs) in a statement released following their annual Summit on 7 and 8 June 2015, hosted by Germany under their presidency of...

This report presented at the 29th session of the UN Human Rights Council focuses on the actions that business enterprises have taken to meet their corporate responsibility to respect human rights. It is based on the presentations and key lessons from the...

Recommendations on potential ways forward to catalyse leadership and action and advance business and human rights in Indonesia, have been issued in a report released today. The event report summarises the discussions and findings of an Indonesian conference...

On June 1st, Ed Potter, Director of Global Workplace Rights at The Coca-Cola Company retires. In order to mark the occasion of Ed’s retirement, a number of business leaders wanted to express their appreciation for his contribution to the agenda and to...